BGH
[beːɡeːˈhaː]
The verdict
“BGH” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #7,445) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #7,445
- frequency rank, German
- 5,818
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bundesgerichtshof
Corpus desk
Index DE-bgh · BGH · German
BGH · rank #7,445 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,445
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,818
- PHOTO-FINISH Beleidigung
Nearest frequency peer: Beleidigung (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „BGH“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- Begleiter
Begleiter
92,559 corpus weight
- beherrscht
beherrscht
92,558 corpus weight
- Beleidigung
Beleidigung
92,557 corpus weight
- BGH
BGH
92,556 corpus weight
- Biologie
Biologie
92,555 corpus weight
- case
case
92,554 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „BGH“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | BGH |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [beːɡeːˈhaː] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #7,445 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „BGH“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for BGH is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "Br", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [beːɡeːˈhaː]. Frequency #7,445 among 5,818 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Bundesgerichtshof".
BGH has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "Br", "Bi", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct German form is BGH, spelled B-G-H.
Definition
- 1Bundesgerichtshof
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how BGH appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Der Sitz des BGH ist seit dessen Gründung im Jahr 1950 in Karlsruhe.“
„Der Bundesgerichtshof in Karlsruhe (BGH) hat jetzt klargestellt, dass Vermieter die Wohnung bereits kündigen können, wenn mehr als eine Monatsmiete auf dem Konto fehlt – allerdings per fristgerechter Kündigung; dabei müssen die gesetzlichen oder die vereinbarten Fristen beachtet werden.“
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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